Mascherata

This YA/crossover low fantasy novel is teeming with new settings, monsters, elemental spirits, and its own brand of magic.

When Alva McGregor is sent to marry a Venetian noble, she has high hopes that her life is at last taking a turn for the better. Little does she know that she's already up to her neck in the dark magic that haunts the waters of Venice, and a force older than the world itself is waiting impatiently for her to make a choice between duty and freedom.

An elopement gone wrong leaves Alva, her fiancé Alvise, and the mysterious boy she met at the carnival, Cesco, stranded in an unimaginable, foreign place. As they try to find their way back home, they begin to uncover the harrowing truth about the fate of the world-and that their arrival on the icy planes of Vemorta was anything but coincidental.

Ripe with magic and monsters, Mascherata is a tale about guilt, freedom, and the manifold edges of love's dagger.